Stivers School for the Arts

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Stivers School for the Arts
Giving Our Best Performance
Location
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Information
School type Public Magnet Secondary School
Founded 1908
School board Dayton City Schools District
Principal Erin Dooley
Grades 7-12
Enrollment 870 approx.
Language English
Area Urban
Color(s) Orange and Black          
Mascot Tiger
Team name Stivers Tigers
Newspaper The Tiger Times
Website Stivers.org


U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
 United States
Built/Founded: 1908
Architectural style(s): Tudor Revival
Governing body: Dayton, Ohio
Added to NRHP: August 21, 2001[1]
NRHP Reference#: 01000896

Stivers School for the Arts is a magnet school in the Dayton City Schools in Dayton, Ohio, USA, located in the St. Anne's Hill Historic District neighborhood. It is a public middle- and high school that focuses on education in the visual and performing arts. U.S. News and World Report ranked Stivers as being among America's best public high schools.

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[edit] About

Stivers was founded in 1908. Its building is Dayton's oldest school building. Stivers was a high school until the mid-1980s when it became a middle school. It became both a middle and high school gradually starting in the mid 1990s, graduating its first (new) high school class in 2000. Stivers was renovated and the students went temporarily to the Homewood Campus. The current Stivers re-opened on October 29th 2008. The class of 2008 was the first class to graduate from the renovated building. Students enter Stivers at the 7th grade level by audition and may stay until they graduate in 12th grade. The school currently has around 870 students in grades 7-12.

Stivers offers programs in piano, band, orchestra, dance, theatre, creative writing, choir, and visual arts as well as a full range of quality academics . Special features of the Arts programs include weekly, individualized instruction, special seminars, master classes and extensive opportunities for performance and creative expression. Students are provided instruction through one-on-one contact with many of the community's leading professional and performing artists.

Art themes are integrated into the general curriculum. Stivers has a rigorous academic program that consistently produces test scores that far exceed all other schools in the district. Stivers' state report card is similar to that of high-performing suburban schools in the Dayton region. Stivers has been called the "Crown Jewel" in the Dayton Public Schools System by the Dayton Daily News.

Stivers was rated an "Excellent" school by the Ohio Department of Education for the 2007-2008 school year. [1]

Milton Caniff is a famous alumnus of Stivers. He was a cartoonist and at times in his cartoons referenced a high school called St. Ivers, a referenceto his alma mater. Stivers honored Caniff’s legacy by renaming part of South Clinton Street (adjacent to Fifth St.) as Milton Caniff Drive. [2]

[edit] Curriculum and activities

  • Academic: Required and elective college preparatory courses including Advanced Placement Courses

Courses in arts magnet areas include:

  • Creative Writing - Beginning through advanced classes, journalism, film apreciation,
  • Orchestra - Beginning through advanced classes
  • Choral Music - General Choir, Show Choir, & other specialized choral groups
  • Piano- Beginning through advanced piano classes, music theory,

[edit] seedling Foundation

Stivers School for the Arts

A large donation of $100,000 dollars was given to the Arts school on July 12,2007 through the seedling Foundation. This money will help fund the Arts magnet program at Stivers as well as other programs which saw major cuts after a school levy failed and some faculty were cut.[3]

The seedling Foundation is a non-profit organization established to benefit Stivers School for the Arts. The foundation's purpose is to support the Arts Programs at Stivers by providing funds for guest artists, scholarship programs, and other educational pursuits. The organization consists of parents, alumni, and community leaders. Donations are accepted by the seedling Foundation for the current capital campaign.

[edit] Recognitions

  • Honored by U.S. News and World Report as being among America's best public high schools, earning a Bronze Award. [4]
  • Selected to be an Ohio Venture Capital school and receive a grant of $25,000 per year for five years, to be used for staff development.
  • Named a Finalist for National Blue-Ribbon School of Excellence in 1992.
  • Awarded a State Superintendent School of Promise Award (2007)
  • The Jazz Band won the national championships at Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival in 2004 and 2008.[2]
  • Stivers has remained in the 'Effective' or 'Excellent' category every year since the Ohio Department of Education has assigned designations to schools. As of the 2008-2009 school year, Stivers School for the Arts received an "Excellent" rating from the Ohio Department of Education.

[edit] Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

Further information: Ohio High School Athletic Association

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information Systems Retrieved February 16, 2007.
  2. ^ http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/10/ddn021008stiversweb.html
  3. ^ Yappi. "Yappi Sports Basketball AAA". http://www.yappi.com/boysbasketball/AAA.html. Retrieved on 2007-02-12. 
  4. ^ OHSAA. "Ohio High School Athletic Association Web site". http://www.ohsaa.org/. Retrieved on 2006-12-31. 

[edit] External links

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